Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wives at the royal village of Mushenge itself. Waiting till the King set out on one of his periodic visits to another part of the forest, Mputukanga rushed in with his armed escort, polled the palace girls, too. Returning, the King was enraged to find that all but a meager cadre of 50 wives had decamped...
...fourth victory came on the last weekend of the season, when Ford, Tom Munnell, Lehman, John Marshall, and Don Cannon bowled over Bowdoin and Boston College in the NEISA team champioships consolation regatta. It was meager consolation for the season's earlier defeats...
...there not only at the right time and place, but in the right way. Then, and even now, the business sections of the daily press offered only meager nourishment for the millions of newly curious. They abounded in the dullest kind of copy: earnings reports, production indexes, commodity prices and stock charts, most of it in the strange and mystifying currency of the marketplace: "economic parity," "discretionary income." "price-earnings ratio," "net free reserves...
...River. Nesmeyanov is a world-famed organic chemist, and certainly capable of dreaming impressive scientific dreams. But the book that Komsomolskaya Pravda's reporters assembled is singularly meager in scientific imagination. One chapter predicts for the 21st century the mechanization of mines-which is already an accomplished fact in many non-Communist countries. Another tells about hydroelectric stations very run-of-the-river examples, that will be built in 50 years in Siberia. A chapter on surgery describes techniques and operations that have been standard in the outside world for many years. Almost the only unfamiliar glimpse...
...Paris a coolly hostile National Assembly met to hear De Gaulle's ministers explain his project to create an independent $1.2 billion French nuclear force. To complaints that the plan was too dear, too meager and, above all, too disruptive of vital European defense unity, Premier Michel Debre replied plaintively: "France is not going toward isolationism, toward neutralism." But since De Gaulle's constitution empowers him to dissolve the Assembly and call new elections if his wish is not granted, the bill was likely to pass...